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Proof of Presidential Qualifications
The “birther” issue, such as it is, introduces the subject of qualifications for president as well as proof of qualifications. The only requirements for qualifying as president are: 1) born in the USA, 2) lived in the US the past 14 years, and 3) age 35 or more. That’s it. I believe that is grossly incomplete.
For whatever might be on a presidential candidate’s resume, it is subject to verification. Donald Trump wants to know how good of student Obama was at various institutions. We should want to know the same about Donald and other candidates.
We want to know about bankruptcies and about any legal issues that affect evaluation. We want to know about business relationships that may affect evaluation.
Presidential candidates and people serving in public office are subject to public scrutiny. The standard for such scrutiny is inadequately defined.
As I reported before, Donald Trump may have a problem getting a national security clearance because bankruptcies are a factor.
“Donald Trump: Obama Wasn't Qualified For Ivy League
NEW YORK — Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.
"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."
Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star. Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.
"I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard," Trump said. "We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president."
Katie Hogan, a spokeswoman for Obama's re-election campaign, declined to comment.
Trump, a wealthy businessman and reality TV host, has risen to the top of many polls in part by his outspoken call for Obama to release his long form birth certificate. The state of Hawaii has released a certificate of live birth indicating Obama was born there on August 4, 1961, but that has not quelled critics who believe Obama was born outside the United States and is therefore not qualified to be president.
The so-called "birther" controversy has dominated the early stage of the 2012 GOP nominating contest, with Trump leading the charge.
"I have more people that are excited about the fact that I reinvigorated this whole issue," Trump said, adding "the last guy (Obama) wants to run against is Donald Trump."”


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at 04:49 on April 28th, 2011
If Obama wasn't qualified for the Ivy League he would not have been accepted and graduated high in his class. That is another distraction and noise in the system from Donald Trump.
I heard Trump discuss his views about Chinese manipulating currency and that was a worthwhile discussion. Stick to business, Donald and avoid the distractions.
at 06:06 on April 28th, 2011
YEA a birth certificate. At least Donald has spunk and chutzpa. But I agree it would be really delightful if he presented some serious discussion into the mix for the Admin to address.
at 06:59 on April 28th, 2011
I get a kick out of Donald and there is no question that he would raise the energy level. We had a cowboy and now do we need a city slicker?
at 07:22 on April 28th, 2011
What the hell. Anything new in the mix, especially if he comes from New York can't be that bad. BTW, just got this one. i posted in another of your articles. It just is not going away. I just wonder why?
Today, Barack Obama blinked – releasing birth records he has hired lawyers to prevent the public from seeing, even at the expense of allowing U.S. Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin to be court-martialed and sent to prison for having dared ask questions the White House until now has resolutely dismissed with ridicule and disdain.
A key problem for Obama is that birth certificates issued to twin girls born one day later at Kapi'olani hospital, the Nordykes, are the Rosetta Stone of deciphering both Obama's previously released short-form Certification of Live Birth and the newly released purported copy of his long-form birth certificate.
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The problem since the short-form certificate was released during the 2008 presidential campaign has always been this:
In 1961, the birth certificate numbers were not assigned by the hospitals.
Instead, the numbers were stamped to the birth record by the Hawaii Department of Health at the main office in Honolulu.
This is the only place birth certificate numbers were assigned.
At the last step of the process, the documents were accepted by the registrar general, with the date of registration inserted in box No. 22 on the lower right hand corner of the long-form birth certificate.
The date the birth document was accepted by the registrar general was the date the birth certificate number was stamped on the birth record.
The birth certificate number was stamped on the form by a rubber stamp that automatically increased by one each time a birth certificate was stamped.
The question, therefore, is how was it possible that the Nordyke twins had their birth certificates accepted by the registrar general in Hawaii three days later than the registrar general accepted Obama's birth certificate, when the twins' numbers are lower than Obama's number?
Here are the Nordyke twins birth certificates:
Eleanor Nordyke has speculated that her twins received an earlier birth certificate number because, although she gave birth later than Ann Dunham, she entered Kapi'olani earlier.
Yet, in 1961, birth certificate numbers were not assigned by the hospital, and the date the mother checked into the medical facility was irrelevant to how birth certificate numbers were assigned.
Moreover, no records for Dunham having been a patient at Kapi'olani in 1961, or of Obama having been born at the hospital on Aug. 4, 1961, have been released by the hospital.
Now that President Obama has personally vouched for the authenticity of the birth certificate the White House released today, he can reasonably be asked to authorize Kapi'olani Medical Center to release any and all medical records the hospital may hold for his mother and Barack Obama Sr., his listed father.
The debate over Obama's eligibility to be president has truly only just begun, with Obama's status having changed overnight from a bemused observer to a full-contact participant.
Two weeks before the publication of my book "Where's the Birth Certificate?" the effort to document Obama's past has begun in earnest.
Fundamentally, the world changed for Barack Obama this morning, not just in increasing pressure for the release of the many hidden documents about his past, but in the inescapable reality that the White House must defend this newly released birth certificate as authentic.
Before today, Obama may have attempted to explain away problems with the short-form Certification of Live Birth as the work of his supporters.
Before today, the president largely remained above the fray. Now, he has fully engaged in the presentation and defense of his birth records and his status as a "natural born citizen" under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution.
Obama's presidency now depends upon the White House being able to support the veracity of all the information contained in the birth document released yesterday morning.
In the final analysis, proof that the document is an authentic Obama birth record will await forensic examination.
Read more: What is it about twin girls born day after Obama? http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=292457#ixzz1KpbBKsCt
at 08:59 on April 28th, 2011
You can take that road if you want, but by the time you arrive, President Obama will be well established in his second term.
at 09:35 on April 28th, 2011
As you see, Jim, the lunacy continues unabated.
Source: my.nowpublic.com
President Obama meets all of the criteria listed.
That's why, in Birther Fantasyland, which seems to be a special place that one can reach only if one's heart is willing to 'know' that the President shouldn't BE the president, his birth is key to his downfall.
at 08:58 on April 28th, 2011
Every President has been caught off guard and misheard the simplest advice. "Do something, stupid." And heard, "Do something stupid." -LOL. :-)
at 09:01 on April 28th, 2011
"Stupid is as stupid does." Forest Gump